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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He previously taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. His research has focused on macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, and finance, examining topics such as consumption, precautionary savings, lending booms, fiscal federalism, and labor market exchange rates. Gourinchas is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and is affiliated with the International Growth Center, also based in London. He has served as an editor for the IMF Economic Review and is an associate editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is a member of the Scientific Committee for the Fondation Banque de France. Gourinchas has been recognized with several awards, including the Bernacer Prize in 2007 for outstanding contributions to the field of macroeconomics and the 2008 prize for French economists under 40.
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